Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [vb past] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 2 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 3 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 4 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 5 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 6 | The JAC in Leeds admitted that it had not been able to counter the numbers going into dead-end jobs , and a similar admission was made by the Plymouth authorities . |
| 7 | That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ? |
| 8 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 9 | a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together . |
| 10 | She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor . |
| 11 | At a White House meeting on 10 November Reagan argued that he had not been dealing with terrorists in Iran but only moderates . |
| 12 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 13 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 14 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 15 | The Court of first instance decided that there had not been unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 16 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 17 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 18 | You might have company , " Patrick panted. he knew that they had n't been followed , but he also knew that as soon as his mother discovered that he — that both of them — had gone , the first place she would head for would be Joe Hyde 's flat . |
| 19 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 20 | When the pain lanced into his back , the shock of it made him cry out loud … and he knew that he had n't been dreaming . |
| 21 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 22 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 23 | It knew that she had not been there before , and that she had somehow appeared amongst them from nowhere . |
| 24 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 25 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 26 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 27 | Well last time we saw her , she said that she had n't been I think she went in her bedroom now , or in the toilet . . |
| 28 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 29 | He said that he had not been informed of the dissolution of the National Assembly on Jan. 4 . |
| 30 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |